Carriers In the United States Want to Introduce "Screen Zero" Lock Screen Adverts to Cellphones
Android smartphones can be a tough market, and carriers sometimes sell every square inch of a phone to the highest bidder in order to wring as much profit out of a phone as possible. Packed-in, uninstallable crapware programs clog up your app drawer and promote their services. Because the limits for packed-in applications are far lower than for Play Store apps, data-hungry firms like Facebook often pay for a location where they can more readily gather data. Advertisements for "Screen Zero" According to rumors, a new business is developing a more intrusive kind of crapware: lock screen advertisements. The business, "Glance," is a subsidiary of the Indian ad tech giant InMobi, and according to the article, the lock screen "content" provider "plans to deploy its lock screen platform on Android handsets in the US within two months." Glance's app takes over the lock screen in full screen mode. It seems to be a general swipe-heavy social network,...